A couple days ago, Kevin mentioned the fact that Orioles announcer (and former hockey enthusiast) Gary Thorne casually stated that Curt Schilling’s “bloody sock” in the 2004 ALCS was in fact, painted on for effect. Thorne confessed that he heard it from Schilling’s teammate, Doug Mirabelli. Mirabelli has since gone into damage control mode and now, Schilling is pissed. He’s now addressed the accusations on his blog, 38 Pitches.

If you have … the guts, grab an orthopedic surgeon, have them suture your ankle skin down to the tissue covering the bone in your ankle joint, then walk around for 4 hours.

Someone gave me a great idea to end this once and for all. No one will ever need to bring it up again. I?ll wager 1 million dollars to the charity of anyones choice, versus the same amount to ALS. If the blood on the sock is fake, I?ll donate a million dollars to that persons charity, if not they donate that amount to ALS.

It’s good to see Schilling has taken the bait and gone on a vendetta against all media figures. He’s one hell of a pitcher but can we move on with this thing? He’s always seemed like the pitcher to buy into his own hype and he’s done that right now, calling out people with less “guts” than him.

Call up the forensics team because #38 is now challenging someone to a friendly wager of…$1 million. Not a free dinner, not some free ad space on 38 Pitches. But one million dollars. Good luck finding someone to take on that deal. It’s likely that Gary Thorne doesn’t have $1 million to his name. Since he’s the only person with this inside information, maybe you should just kick his ass instead. But be careful because he might have some friends.